As an extension of the Loveology event he hosted in 2011, John Mark Comer, pastor of Bridgetown: A Jesus Church in Portland, Ore., has written Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. and the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female, on sale in stores Feb. 4. Two-thousand college-aged adults attended Comer’s teaching series on the theology of love. His book discusses the roles of men and women in relationships based on God’s plan for love, not American culture’s view of love and romance. Loveology is a Zondervan hardcover book retailing for $19.99. 

Tyndale House Publishers is releasing an unusually titled memoir Feb. 4 by Melanie Shankle, The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life ($14.99, softcover). New York Times best-selling author Shankle blogs at TheBigMama.com and is known for her uplifting humor. The new book is the story of her own marriage—the joys and challenges, including the day her husband hung an antelope head on their wall.

Best-selling author and blogger Holley Gerth offers hope to women in You’re Going to Be Okay: Encouraging Truth Your Heart Needs to Hear, Especially on the Hard Days. Using encouragement and questions for reflection, Gerth shows women how to live with joy regardless of circumstances. Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, releases the book for $15.99 (softcover) Feb. 4. Retailers also
may know Gerth’s name from her DaySpring line of cards and gifts.

Ray Bentley gives students of eschatology something to think about with his Feb. 18 WaterBrook Press release on prophecy and the Middle East. The Holy Land Key: Unlocking End-Times Prophecy Through the Lives of God’s People in Israel ($14.99, softcover) by Bentley with Genevieve Gillespie draws attention to prophetic signs of the end times as revealed in Scripture, in nature and in the lives of Israelis today. Bentley is pastor of Maranatha Chapel near San Diego and host of the daily national program “Maranatha Radio.”

In Saved But Still Enslaved: Breaking Free From Strongholds, Bobby Davis, pastor of Life Church in Cookeville, Tenn., offers keys to overcoming
seven strongholds, including fear, shame and unforgiveness. Davis speaks from his own experiences, having found freedom from drug and alcohol addiction through the ministry of Teen Challenge. On sale in stores this month, this Chosen/Baker Publishing Group title retails for $11.99.

Saloma Miller Furlong, with husband David Furlong, tells her story of leaving Amish life in Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds (softcover, $15.99). Furlong left the Amish community at age 20, only to return to it for two more years before departing for good. Her
story of leaving the first time was featured on the PBS American Experience program “The Amish.” Herald Press releases Bonnet Strings on Feb. 3 

Drawing from scripture, neuroscience and his own research, Charles Stone shows how ministry leaders can avoid falling into negative leadership patterns in his InterVarsity Press book releasing this month. People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership is an IVP Praxis title retailing for $16 (softcover). Stone has more than 30 years of experience in pastoral ministry and is CEO of StoneWell Ministries, where he coaches church leaders.

“The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World” is the subtitle for Tsh Oxenreider’s Notes From a Blue Bike. Oxenreider uses stories from herown life and travels to coach women on how to live in greater alignment with their values and passions. The author is founder of the Simple Mom online community dedicated to the art and science of living life simpler. Thomas Nelson releases Notes in hardcover ($22.99) Feb. 4.

A personal friend of the Billy Graham family, Hanspeter Nuesch, director of Campus Crusade for Christ in Switzerland for 30 years, has penned Ruth and Billy Graham: The Legacy of a Couple. Focusing on Billy and Ruth, this Baker Books/Baker Publishing Group title is designed to help couples who are in ministry together. Billy Graham endorsed the book, while daughter Gigi Graham wrote the foreword and assisted the author with factual details and the more than 100 photographs in the book. Available in hardcover, the biography is on sale in stores this month for $19.99.

Skye Jethani shows how a biblical vision of the future can infuse a person’s work today with new purpose and dignity in Futureville: Discovering Your Purpose for Today by Reimagining Tomorrow. Thomas Nelson releases this book, which includes discussion questions, Jan. 14 for $15.99. Jethani, who is executive editor of the Leadership Media Group at Christianity Today, emphasizes that the future is brighter than readers might think.

NavPress releases the newest book from Greg Laurie on Jan. 14. As It Is in Heaven: How Eternity Brings Focus to What Really Matters (hardcover, $19.99) is not simply another description of heaven. Rather, it details how a scriptural understanding of what goes on there provides direction and inspiration for how we live now. Laurie is the author of more than 70 books and pastor of the multi-campus Harvest Christian Fellowship in California., one of the largest churches in America. 

In Raised From the Dead: The Miracle That Brings Promise to America, evangelist and founder of Christ for all Nations Reinhard Bonnke details the miracle that occurred in the basement of a small African church while he delivered a sermon upstairs. Bonnke says the miracle confirmed that God was truly calling him to move his ministry to America. Whitaker House releases Raised From the Dead ($14.99) on Jan. 8.

New York Times best-selling author Jentezen Franklin says in The Fearless Life: Live Worry-Free No Matter What Happens ($12.99) that believers do not have to live in fear and worry about anything—neither finances, family, health nor danger. On Jan. 7, Charisma House releases Franklin’s book, in which he shows believers how to live confidently and keep the enemy from stealing their peace and joy.

For longtime students of Scripture and those new to its study, John Piper offers 50 meditations for a deeper understanding of God in A Godward Heart: Treasuring the God Who Loves You (Multnomah Books). Author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God, Piper is founder of Desiring God and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary. He served as senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, for more than 30 years. Available Jan. 21, A Godward Heart retails for $14.99.

In August 2013, Antoinette Tuff, a staff member at an Atlanta elementary school, single-handedly prevented a gunman who had entered the school from pulling the trigger on his gun. With Alex Tresniowski, Tuff tells her story in Prepared for a Purpose: An Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Compassion in Crisis, which Bethany House (Baker Publishing Group) releases Jan. 21. Tuff explains how God used all her life experiences, even the painful ones, to prepare her for that moment. Her book retails for $24.99 in hardcover.

Zondervan releases Rachel Macy Stafford’s Hands-Free Mama ($15.99). The book’s lengthy subtitle sums up the book: “A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List, and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters!” Stafford is a married mother of two, a blogger and a self-described victim of the “disease of distraction.” Using personal anecdotes, reflections and questions, she presents practical ways to live a less distracted life. The book is available Jan. 7.

Christian psychologist and certified addictions counselor Rhona Epstein teaches readers to work with their body chemistries to break free from addictive eating in Food Triggers: End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better. Epstein shares insights learned through her own battle with compulsive eating as a teen and offers a broad mind/body/spirit approach for recognizing triggers that keep people caught in a cycle of food abuse. Worthy Publishing releases Epstein’s book this month in softcover for $14.99.

Table in the Darkness: A Healing Journey Through an Eating Disorder is the first-person account of Lee Wolfe Blum’s anorexia and exercise addiction. Eighteen years into her own recovery, Blum is an educator in eating disorders and addictions at the Melrose Institute for Eating Disorders in St. Louis Park, Minn. Her book explains the self-critical thoughts that drove her to an eating disorder, her hospitalization for depression and the help that brought her hope and healing. IVP Crescendo releases Blum’s book in softcover for $15 this month.

Award-winning journalist Edward Gilbreath, an editor-at-large for Christianity Today, examines “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in IVP Books’ Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church (softcover, $16). Written 50 years ago, the letter speaks to today’s church as well, Gilbreath asserts, as race continues to play a part in shaping society and the church must consider what part it will play in the ongoing challenges. The book releases this month.

In Praying for Your Husband From Head to Toe: A Daily Guide to Scripture-Based Prayer, Sharon Jaynes offers women practical help for praying effectively for their husbands. Part 1 lays the foundation of the power and purpose of prayer, Part 2 is a 30-day prayer guide, and the appendix includes an invitation to a 30-Day Prayer Dare. Jaynes is author of 17 books and co-founder of Girlfriends in God, a ministry focused on bringing Christian women together. This $14.99 Multnomah Books title releases in softcover this month.

B&H Books releases Jordan Easley’s Life Change: Finding a New Way to Hope, Think and Live in softcover this month for $14.99. Easley is teaching pastor and campus director at Long Hollow Baptist in Hendersonville, Tenn. He has also served in the ministries of Ed Young Sr. and Charles Stanley. In his book, Easley examines stories of life change from the Gospel of Mark, showing how true change comes from a healthy relationship with God, who enables His people to do what they are not capable of themselves.

Andy’s Stanley’s subtitle for his new book, How to Be Rich, is “It’s Not What You Have. It’s What You Do With What You Have.” The acclaimed pastor shows in the book that cultivating a life of generosity is the secret to true happiness and wealth.  Based on a series of sermons he preached that saw his church members give more than $5 million to Atlanta charities and provide another 34,000 volunteer hours, How to Be Rich challenges today’s American consumerist lifestyle. On sale in stores Dec. 31, the Zondervan release retails for $14.99.

The sequel to Jordan Rubin’s New York Times’ best-seller The Maker’s Diet releases this month in hardcover from Destiny Image. In The Maker’s Diet Revolution: The 10-Day Diet to Lose Weight and Detoxify Your Body, Mind and Spirit ($21.99), Rubin discusses new diet and health tips he has learned, the compromise of America’s food supply, the importance of organic foods and quality water, healing chronic illnesses and more. Rubin is the founder of Garden of Life, a health and wellness company. 

Wm. B. Eerdmans releases a biography for classical music fans this month. Joseph Haydn is the subject of Playing Before the Lord: The Life and Work of Joseph Haydn (softcover, $24) by Calvin R. Stapert, professor emeritus of music at Calvin College. Recounting Haydn’s life from humble beginnings to musical greatness, the book shows how Haydn’s devout Catholic faith influenced his music. It also includes listening guides to several of Haydn’s well-known works.

Christy-award-winning best-selling author Lynn Austin shares her personal struggle with spiritual dryness and finding the renewal of her faith on a trip to the Promised Land in Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked. Using fiction techniques like those in her biblical series “Chronicles of the Kings,” she brings the Holy Land to life and interweaves insights from the Scriptures. Bethany House (Baker Publishing Group) releases Austin’s book in softcover this month for $14.99.

In Heaven Wins: Heaven, Hell and the Hope of Every Person, Don Richardson examines the doctrine of salvation and argues that most people—rather than a small percentage—will make it to heaven. To make this case, he discusses God’s use of general revelation to prepare people for the special revelation of the gospel. Richardson’s mission classic Peace Child tells his story of working among a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea. Heaven Wins is available in softcover this month from Regal Books ($14.99).

Watershed Moments: Turning Points That Change the Course of Our Lives by Gari Meacham (softcover, $14.99) releases this month from Zondervan. Meacham teaches a Bible study to more than a thousand women each week at Second Baptist Church in Houston. She is also known as the wife of former pro-baseball player Bobby Meacham. In Watershed Moments, she encourages her readers to explore often-overlooked turning points in life, including change, unraveling and overcoming, and to see them as opportunities for their spiritual awakening.

In Encounters With Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions, New York Times best-selling author and renowned pastor Tim Keller shows how Jesus changed every person he met by leading them to life-transforming answers. The book also reveals how people can be changed today through encounters with Christ. The hardcover comes out this month from Dutton Adult (Penguin Group) for $19.95.

A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live by Emily P. Freeman (softcover, $13.99) encourages women to see the creative imprint of God within them and to let it shine through in a myriad of ways. Freeman, best-selling author of Grace for the Good Girl, shows the artistic potential of women in simple words, gestures and attitudes. Her Revell (Baker Publishing Group) book releases this month.

Kregel Publications releases family relationships title Related by Chance, Family by Choice: Transforming Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Relationships by Deborah DeArmond this month (softcover, $13.99). DeArmond has worked nearly 30 years as a leadership trainer and executive coach. With the help of her three daughters-in-law, she conducted extensive research for the book, which provides scriptural help for all aspects of these relationships encouraging women to move from simply being related to being members of a truly spiritual family.

Andy Crouch, executive editor of Christianity Today, examines the nature of power in Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. Bringing to light key scriptures related to worship and justice, Crouch reveals constructive uses of power that allow believers to join in God’s creative, redeeming work in the world and which lead to the human flourishing God intends. This month IVP Books releases Playing God in hardcover for $25.

David Wang and Georgina Sam, authors of Still Red, have partnered once again for a new release from Regal this month. Christian China and the Light of the World (softcover, $15.99) is an insider’s look at the growing urban church in China. It includes miraculous stories of the Holy Spirit’s work there, where the Christian movement is said to be in the tens of millions. Wang has been active in ministry in China for more than 45 years; Sam works with the Hosanna Foundation and writes for the Still Red blog.

Bob Fu, a former pastor in the underground church in China, tells his story of imprisonment, escape and battle for human rights in God’s Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian’s Fight for Freedom (Baker Books/Baker Publishing Group). Fu fled to the United States where he now runs ChinaAid, a nonprofit that advocates for the underground church in China, political dissidents and the people who defend them. Written with Nancy French, this softcover book is available this month and retails for $19.99.

Hope in Front of Me: Find Purpose in Your Darkest Moments is the memoir of American Idol finalist and Billboard Top 100 recording artist Danny Gokey (with Ben Stroup). After his young wife, Sophia, died from an unexpected heart condition, Gokey became depressed. Yet on his journey of healing he learned that although it might not be apparent, hope is always present. NavPress releases Gokey’s inspirational story at $19.99 in hardcover this month.

New York Times best-selling author of The Noticer and The Traveler’s Gift Andy Andrews has written a new book coming out this month from W Publishing Group (Thomas Nelson). Written in Andrews’ unique blend of allegorical fiction and inspiration, The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You (hardcover, $19.99) begins as Andy finds Jones, the noticer, once again, and Jones brings the gift of perspective to the town of Orange Beach.

In What Happens When I Die?: True Stories of the Afterlife and What They Tell Us About Eternity, Bill Wiese, New York Times best-selling author of 23 Minutes in Hell, shares stories of near-death experiences, deathbed visions and visits to heaven and hell. Wiese also shows how these encounters align with Scripture and answers numerous questions about the afterlife that people ask him as he speaks about his own supernatural experience. Charisma House releases this book in softcover for $14.99.

B&H Publishing Group releases Set Free: Discover Forgiveness Amidst Murder and Betrayal, written by Stephen Owens and New York Times best-selling author Ken Abraham, this month. The softcover retailing for $14.99 tells Owens’ story of forgiving his mother for hiring a hit man to murder his father. After his mother went to death row, Owens did not see her for decades. Then God brought the two together again, setting them free—one literally and one figuratively—to be reconciled to each other.

Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church is the debut book by former journalist Caleb Breakey, who urges millennials not to abandon the church. He advises members of his generation on how to put their passion to use for the church and inject their desire for truth and conviction into their fellow believers. Harvest House Publishers releases Called to Stay in softcover for $11.99.

Journalist Lindsey O’Connor tells her story of waking from a two-month coma following childbirth in The Long Awakening: A Memoir. O’Connor was close to death several times, but awoke without any memory of the coma. Then she faced the daunting task of putting her life back together despite multiple severe medical challenges and discovered much about herself in the process. Her story comes out this month from Revell (Baker Publishing Group) for $17.99 in softcover.

Heavy metal legend David Ellefson from the band Megadeth has written My Life With Deth: Discovering Meaning in a Life of Rock & Roll (with Joel McIver). Releasing from Howard Books this month (hardcover, $24), Ellefson’s book tells the band’s behind-the-scenes story and his own uplifting journey of overcoming addiction, embarking on a life of faith and ministering to unchurched people globally through MEGA Life! Ministries, a contemporary worship service.

IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, releases this month the third volume in the “Biblical Imagination Series” by author-artist Michael Card. Matthew: The Gospel of Identity (softcover, $18) is a passage-by-passage commentary on Matthew’s Gospel in which Card leads readers to see Matthew’s primary focus: the identity of Jesus and the radical new identity believers receive when becoming citizens of God’s kingdom. Also this month IVP releases Card’s companion music CD based on Matthew, The Penultimate Question.

Tish Hagee Tucker, daughter of Pastor John Hagee, tells her story of being healed of cancer in Master of the Impossible: Trusting the One Who Can Turn Anything Around. To encourage readers with a message of hope and total healing, Tucker includes biblical and contemporary examples of God’s miraculous intervention, as well as an appendix of scriptures related to healing. Charisma House releases the $15.99 softcover book this month.

In To Know Him: How Intimacy With God Changes Everything, Billy Humphrey examines the question “Who is God?” in marriage, parenting, finance, work and ministry. Founder and director of the International House of Prayer in Atlanta, Humphrey includes his own journey into a knowledge of God that transformed every area of his life. He shows readers how personal transformation is possible only through knowing God intimately. This month Passio (Charisma House) releases the book in softcover, retailing for $14.99.

Chosen (Baker Publishing Group) releases The Spiritual Warrior’s Guide to Defeating Jezebel: How to Overcome the Spirit of Control, Idolatry and Immorality (softcover, $13.99) by Jennifer LeClaire this month. LeClaire is director of the International House of Prayer, Fort Lauderdale, and news editor for Charisma magazine. Her book exposes the deceit and work of Jezebel in the church and equips readers with strategies to defeat this spirit in the lives of believers.

With step-by-step guides, resources and interactive pages, Downside Up: Transform Rejection Into Your Golden Opportunity leads women to renew how they think and response to rejection. In the Thomas Nelson book releasing this month, author and conference speaker Tracey Mitchell shares her own experiences as a daughter who never met her biological father and shows ways rejection can be one of the most powerful, positive tools in life. The softcover book retails for $15.99.

Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven and Life Again tells the story of Crystal McVea, a skeptic plagued by guilt and a history of bad choices, who went into full respiratory arrest in the hospital one night and spent nine minutes with God in heaven, and how the experience dramatically changed her life. Written with Alex Tresniowski, McVea’s book releases this month from Howard Books and retails for $15.99.

I Believe in Heaven: Real Stories From the Bible, History and Today by Cecil Murphey and Twila Belk (Regal, $14.99, softcover) is a collection of stories about people who have been to heaven and back, from biblical times to current day. It also includes numerous questions and answers about heaven. Murphey has authored and co-authored many best-selling books, including 90 Minutes in Heaven and Heaven Is Real with Don Piper. Belk works full-time with Murphey and has co-authored other books as well.

Drawing from research in psychology, neuroscience and technology, Drs. Archibald Hart and Sylvia Hart Frejd have written The Digital Invasion: How Technology Is Shaping You and Your Relationships ($14.99, softcover), to be released this month by Baker Books/Baker Publishing Group. They reveal how technology changes individuals and offer biblical strategies for handling the “digital invasion.” Archibald Hart is an author and professor of psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. His co-author and daughter, Sylvia Hart Frejd, specializes in Christian counseling and digital research.